Preheat oven to 180°C.Line 12 muffin tins with cupcake or muffin liners. Sift together the dry ingredients in a medium bowl and leave aside. Cream together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl till texture is light.

Add in the eggs, one at a time till fully incorporated. Add the milk and the vanilla extract. Gradually add in the dry ingredients into the wet mix till well-mixed. Fill up each liner with batter till about 3/4 full. Top up each cupcake with approximately 1 tbsp of nutella. Use a toothpick to swirl the nutella into the batter. Bake for 20 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove individual cupcakes to cool completely on a wire rack before storing.

The frosting turned out really great, but the second I took it out the fridge and started piping because of the high levels of humidity it couldn't keep nice shape. Even though they were delicious. Try it for yourself !

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Another piece for my living room. I wanted to have a chalk board and pin board where to pin important staff, but didn't wanted them to take big part of the wall, so I came up with this combination.

Like I wrote when I started my living roombeautificationproject I want it to be simple and on the cheap side, so I'm keeping the line. For this project I used a framed chalk board from the Dollar store ($2), a piece of an old cork board I already had, some scrap fabric left from my Rosettes&Ruffles pillows, and fabric ( a month ago I found upholstery fabric sample book in the thrift store for $3.99) to cover the frame and the cork board, few pins, buttons and some twine. Grabbed my glue gun and there you go - a nice and cheap chalk/pin board !

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Hellooo,
In my previous posts I showed you some of the things I've made for my living room - remodeled end table with decorations, and some book pages picture frames. Now, what is a living room beautification without new pillows? I was lucky enough to find a nice deal on my neighbors weekend garage sale - 4 brand new decorative pillows for $6. All of them came in untouched packaging with price tags on it ($4,99 each). And how possibly could I pass a deal like that ?
Oh, and I forgot the most important part, my lovely husband surprised me with a brand new Singer sewing machine. I love, love, love it and him of course! (That's the moment to say that I have the most amazing husband in the world, who loves me and all my craziness unconditionally !!! Love you!!!)
So, I had pillows, the idea of what I want and some fabric and there you go - new pillows for my sofa !
I'm very happy with the result, especially knowing that these are my first steps in sewing. Take a look !

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

My living room beautification is progressing. Today I want to show you three picture frames I made from book pages and basic Dollar store frames. I was inspired by the Book Wreaths you can find all over the Internet, but I decided instead of wreath to decorate picture frames using the same technique. It is easy but time consuming and mostly it is a nice project for patient people. Unfortunately I'm not one of them, that's why my frames are kind of bald, but may be one day I will add more pieces. Take a look.